With 12.23 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 20.99 million shares. During the session, the Gold company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $21.1 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $20.585. The 52-week range on B shows that it touched its highest point at $21.70 and its lowest point at $15.11 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $25.35. With its current market cap of 35.89 billion, B has annualized dividend of $0.40 while the current yield stands at 1.92%. B paid its most recent dividend on 1748563200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1748563200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.26.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of B was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.25%, but this was up by 9.44% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 7.86% while six-month performance rose 37.03%. The stock gained 34.65% in the past year, while it has gained 26.03% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for B yields 1.33 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.27. For the next quarter, that number is 0.44. This implies an EPS growth rate of 47.05% for this year and 22.78% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 18.47% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -11.52%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.72 billion B shares are outstanding with a float of 1.72 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 16.19 million, which was 74.0 higher than short shares on 1744675200. In addition to Dr. Dennis Mark Bristow Ph.D. as the firm’s President, CEO, Member of International Advisory Board & Director, Mr. Graham Patrick Shuttleworth serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.61993 of B’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2025-03-31, B reported revenue of $3130000000.0 and operating income of $1230000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1688000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.27.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for B since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With B analysts setting a high price target of 31.5 and a low target of 21.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 24.942. Based on these targets, B could surge 50.93% to reach the target high and rise by 0.62% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 19.51% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.38411 being high and $1.13883 being low. For B, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.21767.
